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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have never said so, but in reality it will happen that way because the Kampuchean people themselves will sweep away the remnants of (former Khmer Rouge Leader) Pol Pot. Then the Kampuchean people will no longer need us, and we will no longer need to stay in Kampuchea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Pham Van Dong | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

Disappointed viewers would do better to stick with the tabloid version: "Vamp gets Bopped by Pol as Slugger, Time/Space Physicist Look...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Odd Couple | 9/20/1985 | See Source »

Maybe it is hyperbole to call Mengele the most hated man in the world. There are certainly other candidates for that lamentable title. Pol Pot, for example, who directed the terrible massacres in Kampuchea in the 1970s. Or the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who has led Iran back into the darkness. Or the director of the Soviet KGB, who has to be a leading candidate, ex officio, no matter who he is. But none of these political killers seems so utterly diabolical as Josef Mengele. The Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about 3 million Jews and other victims were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mengele:Non Requiescat in Pace | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...watched Congressman Dan Rostenkowski cut a deal with a colleague or swing a golf club with a lobbyist has ever called him that. Indeed, as a former Chicago ward heeler and protege of the late Mayor Richard Daley, he seems to be the quintessential machine pol. Yet, by the peculiar dynamic of politics, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has become the point man for the most ambitious attempt ever at overhauling the loophole-laden tax code. "The reform hat I am wearing is not yet comfortable," Rostenkowski cheerfully confessed to the Wall Street Journal last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Blueprint, 535 Contractors | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...watched Congressman Dan Rostenkowski cut a deal with a colleague or swing a golf club with a lobbyist has ever called him that. Indeed, as a former Chicago ward heeler and protege of the late Mayor Richard Daley, he seems to be the quintessential machine pol. Yet, by the peculiar dynamic of politics, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has become the point man for the most ambitious attempt ever at overhauling the loophole-laden tax code. "The reform hat I am wearing is not yet comfortable," Rostenkowski cheerfully confessed to the Wall Street Journal last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Blueprint, 535 Contractors | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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